railsmachine.com Archives - 27 January 2013, Sunday

A Web Operations View of Election Day Posted by Kevin Lawver on November 15, 2012 | 0 comments Yes, I know the election was last week, but it’s taken us that long to recover from the sheer awesomeness of how well it went for our customers. No, not the outcome of the election, but thei...

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. I used it for a product at my last company and found it to be easy to manage and deploy and fun to develop with. We have a couple of customers here at Rails Machine that are also big fans of MongoDB and we helped one of them upgrade their replica set today from two nodes with an arb...

Just awhile back, I wrote about how to build a Campfire bot with hubot . I’ve been doing a lot of work on our very own hubot since then (Claptrap, by name), and it’s been a pretty rad experience. You’d think that hubot is all fun & lulz if you take a look at the Hubot Script Catalog ,...

(this was written by our intrepid Director of Operations, Travis Graham, who was too busy to proofread and edit it, so I did it for him. I swear he wrote, like, 95% of it. I added the top tips and the thing about open office hours. I certainly didn’t have to fix any typos or weird com...

We are excited to announce our new Open Office Hours in July where you can ask anything you want about our open source products, like Moonshine for example, advice on how to be ready when you end up on the homepage of Reddit, or why we do the things we do. Open Office Hours will be he...

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Join us for Open Office Hours and ask us anything about our open source projects Moonshine, Shadow Puppet, The Rails Machine, or advice on how to keep your app up and running well! Open Office Hours will be hosted through a Google Hangout. Just add us to your circles on Google Plus an...

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One of the many things we look forward to at the Rails Machine office are events in Savannah that bring some awareness to the local tech scene and it just happens that two such events are happening this month, Tech Crunch Mini Meetup and the Downtown Tech Crawl. July 6th–11th, Tech Cr...

Posted by Josh Nichols on June 20, 2012 | 0 comments At Rails Machine , we provide 24×7 monitoring as part of our Managed Hosting, and Scout plays a huge part of that. Today, I’ll be talking about what we monitor with Scout, and our philosophy of monitoring. When talking about monitor...

Posted by Steven Scarborough on June 11, 2012 | 0 comments Hi everyone. My name is Steven Scarborough and I’m officially the new guy in the Rails Machine office and I couldn’t be more excited about working with such a talented team. Everyday, I’m impressed by the speed, knowledge, and...

In an earlier post , Josh wrote about downloading, installing, and running a Campfire bot to make your day more productive and lot more hilarious. Today, we’re going to show you how we use our robot, Claptrap, for motivating us to quench our thirst of frothy and delicious iced lattes....

I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but we love us some system automation . I think most of us can agree system automation (chef , puppet , moonshine , etc) is a good thing. As much as we love it, things can get tedious when it comes to actually developing and testing the automation. The pr...

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Hubot> hubot help Hubot> <keyword> tweet - Returns a link to a tweet about <keyword> <user> is a badass guitarist - assign a role to a user <user> is not a badass guitarist - remove a role from a user animate me <query> - The same thing as `image me`, except adds a few convert me <exp...

Finding and Indexing: You May Be Doing It Wrong Posted by Kevin Lawver on May 22, 2012 | 0 comments Rails makes building dynamic web apps a lot easier than it used to be. ActiveRecord lulls us into a false sense of security. We relax, thinking that ActiveRecord will always be there to...

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Hi, my name is Kevin Lawver and I’ve been at Rails Machine for almost a month now. I would have written a blog post sooner, but I’ve been busy learning things . I came to Rails Machine from a startup here in Savannah where I was CTO (and sysadmin and lead developer and project manager...